Faculty

Jan Zápal has been an Associate Professor with Tenure since 2020 and an Assistant Professor from September 2012 until 2020 at CERGE-EI (under U.S. permanent charter). He has also been an Associate Professor at CERGE, Charles University since 2020, Assistant Professor at CERGE, Charles University since 2014 until 2020 and a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences since September 2014. He received his Master's degree from the Institute of Economic Studies at Charles University in 2005 and a Ph.D. degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2012. During his Ph.D. studies he was a Visiting Student Researcher at the Californian Institute of Technology (2010 to 2011), held an Economica Scholarship awarded by the LSE Department of Economics (2007 and 2008), and won the first prize in the Young Economist of the Year competition organized by the Czech Economic Society (2008). Between 2012 and 2014 he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at IAE-CSIC, Barcelona.

Research Orientation:
Political economics, economic theory, dynamic bargaining models, behavioural political economics